This volume offers extensively annotated translations of essays that are key to Benjamin's rewriting of the story of modernism and modernity, as well as a diary from 1938 and penetrating studies of Bertolt Brecht, Franz Kafka and Eduard Fuchs.
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This volume covers studies of Baudelaire, Brecht, and the historian Carl Jochmann to appraisals of photography, film, and poetry, with the underlying question of how art can survive and thrive in a tumultuous time. Here Benjamin lays out an ethic for the critic and artist of a s…
The appearance of David Slavitt's translation of 'Orlando Furioso', one of the great literary achievements of the Italian Renaissance, is a publishing event. With this translation, Slavitt introduces readers to Ariosto's now neglected masterpiece, a poem whose Western literature…
After retiring from teaching literature, Patricia Meyer Spacks embarked on a year-long project of rereading dozens of novels: childhood favourites, young adult fiction, canonical works she didn't like, guilty pleasures. On Rereading records the surprising, fascinating results of…